post-70s Symphonic bands

The Flower Kings, then Willowglass. Anglagard is way too overrated 

Anglagard is not my cup of tea. I like Flower Kings and Spock's Beard. But in the last years I discovered Willowglass which sounds perfect. I have the album Book of hours, just excellent, so I vote for it. Other symph bands that I like are Rocket Scientists and Par LInd Project.

richardh wrote: Three Monks are categorised as RPI but I would be be happy for them to be included also Par Lindh Project  Ars Nova (the Japanese band) Glass Hammer

genbanks wrote: Anglagard is not my cup of tea. I like Flower Kings and Spock's Beard. But in the last years I discovered Willowglass which sounds perfect. I have the album Book of hours, just excellent, so I vote for it. Other symph bands that I like are Rocket Scientists and Par LInd Project.

Of that list Spocks Beard......

Horizons wrote: Big Big Train or Tangent.

Big Big Train are listed as Crossover, Tangent are listed as Eclectic.  They would otherwise both have been in the poll

Horizons wrote:  ......... their style of Eclectic .........

Style of eclectic?  Is there another definition of eclectic that I wasn't aware of?  How can there be a style of eclectic?

ah rightio then

Horizons wrote: Stool Man wrote: Horizons wrote: Big Big Train or Tangent.  Big Big Train are listed as Crossover, Tangent are listed as Eclectic.  They would otherwise both have been in the poll I know they are - but they're symphonic. As much as any of these on the list. Crossover is a joke for BBT and i suppose Eclectic works for Tangent, but their style of Eclectic is nothing really different bands like Echolyn.

Neo is a kind of crossover.

I agree about The Tangent.  I used to be on the Eclectic team and questioned whether it best belonged in that category.  While it has some eclectic qualities (that's typical of Prog), the material I heard leaned to Symph.  Ah well, categories are just a rough guide and the behearer can classify music as they like.

I agree about there being styles of Eclectic Prog, and that played a factor in how I evaluated music.  There is no one style, there are lots of styles to be found in eclectic.  Part of that depends on what genres are crossed and also what bands they can be compared to. Some are more unique than others.  I tened to like the RIO/ Avant-oriented Eclectic ones best.  My favourite album in Eclectic, by the way, is Jean-Claude Vannier's L'enfant assassin des mouches which has psyche qualities, but also symphonic and avant-garde qualities.

Sometimes you're analytically ticking off boxes to say that a band crosses one Prog category-styled music with another and another (and deciding that it doesn't lean to any one category enough so that it's deemed suitable for the mishmash prog category), but you're also referencing it with bands in categories.  I don't know how many times I heard one and thought, hmm this has a particular Crimsonesque style, and that swayed me.